Monthly Oil and Other Liquid Petroleum Products Pipeline Survey (MOPS)

Liquid hydrocarbon receipts of economy, category

Liquid hydrocarbon receipts refers to oil and other liquid products received by the pipeline company as gauged or metered. Receipts may be of several categories; receipts from fields which may be from batteries or well-heads; from processing plants (plants which process natural gas and recover liquid hydrocarbons); imports metered at the border; receipts from other (which includes truck receipts).

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Total receipts and transfers